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'Why don't you pay them a visit, pour petrol on their homes, and set them on fire?': The week in quotes

Here’s what was said and who said what this week.

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Why don’t you give them a visit, pour petrol on their homes and set these on fire to register your anger? They’re all enjoying your money, money that destroyed your brain. You know who the drug lords are. Would you like to kill them? Go ahead. Killing them is allowed because you are the victim.

The Philippines’ police chief Ronald dela Rosa called on drug users to kill traffickers and burn their homes.
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This is the new Rising – 100,000 Irish children are partitioned from their fathers and denied their human rights. The Rose of Tralee has lots of beauty, but there is nothing beautiful about family law. We want equal rights for fathers in Ireland. It is a human right for children to see their fathers. This is a public health warning, your families are at risk from the cancer of family breakdown and fatherlessness.

Matt O’Connor of Fathers4Justice’s statement after crashing the stage at Rose of Tralee, dressed as priest.

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Many will claim that I have reaped what I have sown. But my intention was to highlight a societal wrong. Those who seek to shame me in the media are just trying to shut me up.

Homeless campaigner Erica Fleming said that false accounts have been spread about her to try and tarnish her reputation.

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I have bad days and just cry and cry and think I’ll never find her.

Josephine Pender, mother of missing woman Fiona Pender, speaking to mark the 20th anniversary of her daughter’s disappearance.

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I have two sisters… I have a kid and a wife. I have to support them. Families fall out over organ donation all the time. But the mad thing is there are people walking around with two kidneys when you only need one. There are people lying in hospital beds just wishing someone would give them a kidney.

Irish comedian Jarleth Regan has spoken about donating a kidney to his brother.

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I think it’s time to give women a say over their reproductive rights,” and called on Ireland to hold a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment. I would love to see a referendum on the eighth amendment come up soon. That would be my dream.

Sydney Rose Brianna Parkins’s comments on the Eighth Amendment became one of the most talked-about aspects of the Rose of Tralee.

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We are not amused by the memes, petitions and signs about Harambe. Our zoo family is still healing, and the constant mention of Harambe makes moving forward more difficult for us. We are honouring Harambe by redoubling our gorilla conservation efforts and encouraging others to join us.

Director of Cinicinnati Zoo Thane Maynard on the spread of Harambe memes.

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The way I look at it is … give these guys a chance. We see what we’re shown, who’s to say that that’s what it is? I really don’t know. Give them a chance, see will they accept and we’ll go from there.

Sean Mooney, a representative from the Finglas Village Renewal Partnership, speaking to RTÉ Radio 1 about his attempts to have Finglas twinned with North Korea, despite the country’s dire human rights record.

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